The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer, Author(Reader), New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1401384838

Currently not logged in | Wish List | Recent searches | Sign in

Compare Book Prices at 130 Stores!

Help Bookmark Tell a Friend Out-of-Print Wish List Home
Search by TITLE AUTHOR KEYWORD ISBN Advanced Search

Book Details

Search: The Tender Bar: A Memoir : ISBN: 1401384838

Add to Favorites

Email this page

Link To Us

Recent Searches
Learn more

Tender Bar, The by J.R. M...

» View more

» Clear searches

Larger Image » Add book review » Tag this book(What's this?)	The Tender Bar: A Memoir By: J.R. Moehringer Author(Reader) ISBN-10: 1401384838 ISBN-13: 9781401384838 Publisher: Hyperion - 2006-08-01 Audio CD \| Abridged Edition \| List Price: $14.98 (USD) \| Sales Rank: 682798 Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches Similar Titles All Editions Customer Reviews More details from or

Editorial Reviews

"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-heavy Manhasset, New York, in a ramshackle house crammed with cousins and ruled by an eccentric, unkind grandfather.Desperate for a paternal figure, he turns first to his father, a DJ whom he can only access via the radio (Moehringer calls him The Voice and pictures him as "talking smoke"). When The Voice suddenly disappears from the airwaves, Moehringer turns to his hairless Uncle Charlie, and subsequently, Uncle Charlie's place of employment--a bar called Dickens that soon takes center stage. While Moehringer may occasionally resort to an overwrought metaphor (the footsteps of his family sound like "storm troopers on stilts"), his writing moves at a quick clip and his tale of a dysfunctional but tightly knit community is warmly told. "While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us," Moehringer says, and his story makes us believe it. --Brangien Davis

"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-heavy Manhasset, New York, in a ramshackle house crammed with cousins and ruled by an eccentric, unkind grandfather. Desperate for a paternal figure, he turns first to his father, a DJ whom he can only access via the radio (Moehringer calls him The Voice and pictures him as "talking smoke"). When The Voice suddenly disappears from the airwaves, Moehringer turns to his hairless Uncle Charlie, and subsequently, Uncle Charlie's place of employment--a bar called Dickens that soon takes center stage. While Moehringer may occasionally resort to an overwrought metaphor (the footsteps of his family sound like "storm troopers on stilts"), his writing moves at a quick clip and his tale of a dysfunctional but tightly knit community is warmly told. "While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us," Moehringer says, and his story makes us believe it. --Brangien Davis

Add Your Review!

Read more reviews from Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com

Portion of these reviews are from Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com, Customer reviews are properties of their respective creators.

Other titles you may be interested:

THE TENDER BAR (By J.R. Moehringer)
Hardcover | Hyperion | 2005-09-01 | listprice: $23.95 | ISBN: 1401300642

The Tender Bar: A Memoir (By J.R. Moehringer)
Hardcover | 2005-09-01 | listprice: $23.95 | ISBN: B000JGWE36

Tender Bar, The (By J.R. Moehringer,Author(Narrator))
Audio CD | Hyperion | 2006-08-01 | listprice: $14.98 | ISBN: 1401384838

The Tender Bar : A Memoir (By J. R. Moehringer)
Paperback | Hyperion | 2005 | ISBN: B000NSIRP4

THE TENDER BAR (By J.R. MOEHRINGER)
Hardcover | SCEPTRE | 2006 | ISBN: 034082882X

The Tender Bar: A Memoir (By J.R. Moehringer)
Paperback | Hyperion | 2006-08-01 | listprice: $14.95 | ISBN: B000LP64MM

TENDER BAR, THE (By J.r. Moehringer)
Paperback | Hyperion | 2006-08-01 | listprice: $14.95 | ISBN: 0786888768

The Tender Bar: A Memoir (By J. R. Moehringer)
TRADE CLOTH | Hyperion | ISBN: 0641795580

Tender Bar, The (By J.r. Moehringer)
Audio CD | Hyperion | 2005-09-01 | listprice: $29.98 | ISBN: 1401383289

The Tender Bar: A Memoir (By J. R. Moehringer)
Hardcover | Thorndike Press | 2005-12-08 | listprice: $30.95 | ISBN: 0786281189

The Tender Bar (By J.R. Moehringer)
Paperback | Hyperion | 2005 | ISBN: 0340895063

Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Trick... (By Henny Youngman)
Hardcover | Random House Value Publishing | 1994-10-17 | listprice: $4.99 | ISBN: 0517101882

Top Sellers

Daddy Kisses
by Anne Gutman

Killer Secrets (Tempting SEALs)
by Lora Leigh

Never Take a Shark to the Dentist: and Other Things Not to D...
by Judi Barrett

Revelation (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 8)
by Karen Traviss

Snoozers : 7 Short Short Bedtime Stories for Lively Little K...

Pinkalicious
by Elizabeth Kann

Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, ...
by Christina Binkley

Purplicious
by Elizabeth Kann

more top sellers

» Add BookFinder4U to your browser's Favorites
» Add BookFinder4U to your online bookmarks:

Search Rare, Out of Print Books? Click here

About Us Contact Us Tell a Friend Bookmark Link To Us Help My Account Home
Book Reviews Store Reviews Browse Authors Browse ISBN Topics 13-digit ISBN Conversion Tool
Out-of-Print Search Advanced Search Bestsellers Book News Store List Wish List Search History

Page loading time: 0.265625 sec. | URL: http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/1401384838.html

©2008 BookFinder4U.com Compare 130 bookstores - All rights Reserved.

Disclaim: Part of content on this site is properties of their respective owners and copyright holders. Bookfinder4u will not under any circumstances be liable to you or any other person for any loss due to the use of these content. Some of the content that we make available to you through this website comes from amazon web services. All such content is provided to you "as is." this content and your use of it are subject to change and/or removal at any time.

Privacy Commitment Conditions of Use